Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Some words of the day:

  • Kakorrhapiophobia: an abnormal fear of failure

  • Panamax: 965ft length x 106ft beam x 39.5ft draft x 190ft height, the maximum dimensions of a vessel that can traverse the Panama Canal.

  • Idiolect: an individual's unique language patterns, including grammar, pronounciation, idiom, and choice of words.

  • Paleologism: a word that appears to be neologistic, but which is in fact long used, e.g. "truthiness"

    • // posted by Rufus @ 3:56 pm
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